American Enemies

The Courant's Aug. 16 editorial, "The President Wants You To Think We're The Enemy. Here's What We Really Do," is the type of weasel journalism responsible for less than one-third of Americans professing to trust it, according to a Gallup poll.

Real journalists know that when President Trump labels the media "the enemy of the American people," he is not referring to those reporting on plane crashes or homeless students.

The media the president attacks are those who lied all along that Hillary Clinton was going to win by a landslide; those who spend hours-on-end (CNN and MSNBC) linking the Manafort trial with President Trump; and those who repeat the charge of President Trump being a threat to freedom of the press and democracy, when the media war on him is ubiquitous.

In countries such as Portugal. where I grew up in, the media -- being but a sounding board for the government -- were indeed the enemy of the people, but no one dare to utter it. Those who did, such as relatives of mine, were thrown in jail for hate speech.

Either by ignorance or convenient amnesia, The Courant's editors renounce the vows of impartiality they swore to uphold. Therefore, they deserve the pejorative epithet "enemies of the American people."